We're going to use Docker to build a chroot env that can be run with systemd-nspawn since I cannot figure out how to run a container using docker in the global network namespace. 1. Build the collectd image using docker docker build -t collectd . 2. Run the container (since we have to run it to export it...) COLLECTD_CONTAINER=`docker run -name collectd-tmp -d collectd` 3. Export then kill the container docker export collectd-tmp > /tmp/collectd.tar 4. Kill the temporary container docker kill $COLLECTD_CONTAINER 5. Unpack the tar archive mkdir -p /tmp/collectd && tar -xvf /tmp/collectd.tar -C /tmp/collectd/ 6. Run collectd with systemd-nspawn - replace the COLLECTD_* env vars with your parameters! sudo systemd-run --unit collectd systemd-nspawn -D /tmp/collectd /bin/bash -c "COLLECTD_GRAPHITE_HOSTNAME=172.31.13.241 COLLECTD_LOCAL_HOSTNAME=node1 /bin/collectd-wrapper"